29 December 2014

It's the same thing every year, but I still can't help getting excited

And I'm back. I lapsed again into the "well, I can't keep this up, maybe next year" mentality. It's not that I accomplished nothing in my free time this year, just I strayed a lot from original goals. I read a whole lot, but only completed a few graphic novels. I played some video games... okay, I only played Animal Crossing and Pokemon. ...I cleaned my room! I've learned more Japanese thanks to Rosetta Stone! I sketched, but very little. I came to the realisation that I can actually buy stuff for my collections because I have a job now. I took a trip to California to see one of my BFFs! So it's been a busy year. But I still want to do more!

I tested out a new way of doing my to-do lists, so I'm going to implement it this year. Every "weekly" segment has tasks represented by dots. Like 10 pages is one dot. Then each section has 100 to 200 dots to measure progress by. The sections are Reading, Drawing, Internet, and Others. I also made an add-on list for video games because there's a lot I want to play, lol. And the reason why they are "weekly" is because I have to finish one week before moving onto the next. That is how I will measure progress... percentages of each segment. I can't spoil myself anymore until I complete a segment! I've never completed the first week of a year and that's very sad!

I'll report on my progress on each moth's State of the Projects. Each week(s) I intend on: reading 100 pages each of a variety of books and comics; draw 90 sketches, 8 illustrations, and two comic pages; write 1000 words in each of my writing projects, listen carefully to 20 CDs, study Japanese, play a wee bit on all my video games (with a few exceptions, like completed games), watch ten anime episodes and one DVD disc, keep up my blogs, and color in my coloring books. Yup, that's going to take more than a week.

But I'm so looking forward to working on all my goals!

I had a countdown till Christmas AND today, the official start of my goals. There's so much more I'm looking forward to in 2015 also! The new Star Wars, the new Hello!Project (one of my favorite groups is leaving, but my favorite member is staying and twelve new girls have been added!), surely a new Pokemon game may be announced, and I'm sure there will be so much more!

Eeeeee!